Brownsville, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,170 ft 360 m1,070 ft 325 m1,010 ft 310 m900 ft 275 m800 ft 245 m740 ft 225 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- Borough area
- Fades everything outside the official borough limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Brownsville sits at about 940 ft (285 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
940 ft 285 m
most residents: 780–1,020 ft
Lowest
740 ft 225 m
near the middle
Highest
1,170 ft 360 m
on the southeast side
Average
890 ft 270 m
all land inside borough limits
Brownsville spans about 430 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 940 ft285 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the southeast side | 1,170 ft360 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, near the middle | 740 ft225 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Brownsville | 790 ft240 m |
| Average of all land | 890 ft270 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 2,099 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.0 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,148 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.0237° N, 79.8839° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Monongahela River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 15417
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Allison1,080 ft
- Brownsville Township1,070 ft
- Redstone Township1,050 ft
- Hiller1,020 ft
- Rowes Run1,000 ft
- Brownsville940 ft
- Grindstone930 ft
- West Brownsville930 ft
- California910 ft
- Newell790 ft
- Coal Center770 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,859th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Fayette County57th highest of 66
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sheppler Hill1,411 ft
- River Hills1,410 ft
- Rich Hill, Fayette County1,380 ft
- Krepp Knob1,350 ft
- Kilndigging Hill1,290 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the borough limits, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census borough limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (FAA airport elevation, NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.